Only a Slave, Only an Ear

And one of them smote the servant of the highpriest and cut off his right ear. And Jesus answered and said, “Suffer ye thus far.” And he touched his ear, and healed him.
- Luke 22:50-51

Jesus of Nazareth does not say: “It is only a slave, and, besides, it is only an ear“. He does not know what small wounds are; and He does not know what insignificant people are. He steps up to Malchus, concentrates His powers, fixes His heart upon His Father, acts in virtue of the energy of the Kingdom of Heaven, and performs a miracle upon Malchus. He touches him, and heals him.
…This last miracle represents the culmination and close of His prophetic teaching and self-revelation. This last sign which He adds to His spoken word should be much more accurately written upon our hearts by faith, than it was described in the minutes of the commandant of the company that night. We, especially we, may not say: “He was only a slave, and it was only an ear”. We must confess: “Here is the King, and this is the power–the King and power of the world to come are here revealed. Amen!”
- Klass Schilder, Christ in His Suffering, 420-21.